 | United States. War Department - 1869 - 674 sider
...National Ship Canal Convention, which was called together for the purpose of discussing the subject of “the enlargement of the canals between the valley of the Mississippi and the Atlantic,” being regarded “as of great national, commercial, and military importance, and as tending to promote... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1863 - 554 sider
...Vf e believe such enlargement or construction, with dimensions sufficient to pa?s gunboats from tho Mississippi to Lake Michigan, and from the Atlantic...from the Great Lakes, will furnish the cheapest and most expeditious means of protecting the Korthern frontier, and at the same "The loyal States assembled... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioner on Enlargement of Canals for National Purposes - 1863 - 108 sider
...the cost of transportation. Respectfully, SG CHASE. No. 39. Call for Convention at Chicago. Regarding the enlargement of the canals between the valley of the Mississippi and the Atlantic as of great national, commercial and military importance, and as tending to promote the 'development, prosperity... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1864 - 244 sider
...military, and commercial importance; we believe such enlargement, with dimensions sufficient to pass gunboats from the Mississippi to Lake Michigan, and...from the great lakes, will furnish the cheapest and most efficient means of protecting the northern frontier, and ut the same time will promote the rapid... | |
 | United States. Post Office Dept - 1864 - 234 sider
...adopted by the convention by which we were appointed, "that canals, with dimensions sufficient to pass gunboats from the Mississippi to Lake Michigan, and...from the great lakes, -will furnish the cheapest and most efficient means of protecting the northern frontier." 2. Commercial importance of the skip canals.... | |
 | William Kingsford - 1865 - 214 sider
...parts / of the United States to the number of five thousand. The object of the meeting was to advocate the enlargement of the Canals between the valley of the Mississippi and the Atlantic as of great national, commercial and military importance. But the meeting was hardly organized before Mr. Spaulding,... | |
 | Iowa - 1870 - 398 sider
...military, and commercial importance ; we believe such enlargement, with dimensions sufficient to pass gunboats from the Mississippi to lake Michigan, and from the Atlantic to and from the great lakes, wil! furnish the cheapest and most efficient means of protecting the northern frontier, and at the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1870 - 714 sider
...National Ship Canal Convention, which was called together for the purpose of discussing the subject of " the enlargement of the canals between the valley of the Mississippi and the Atlantic," being regarded "as of great national, commercial, and military importance, and as tending to promote... | |
 | George P. Brown (Engineer) - 1894 - 546 sider
...deliberations were adopted. Their substance was as follows: 1. That we regard the construction and the enlargement of the canals between the valley of...from the Great Lakes will furnish the cheapest and most efficient means of protecting the northern frontier, and at the same time tend greatly to promote... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - 1908 - 622 sider
...considerations of national importance, military, commercial and political, involved in the adequate enlargement of the canals between the valley of the Mississippi and the Atlantic." He embodied in his report documents, resolutions and many data relating to the subject matter, which... | |
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the enlargement of the canals between the Valley of the Mississippi and the Atlantic, as of great Military, National, and Commercial importance. We believe that such enlargement, to the capacity of passing gunboats from the Mississippi to Lake Michigan,... 